Ash Wednesday

Fifty years after mesmerized motorists made their first wide-eyed trip across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel on April 15, 1964, the seemingly endless, 17.6-mile expanse of elevated trestles, high-level bridges and underwater tunnels once hailed as an engineering wonder has lost a little luster.

In Hampton Roads alone, four more immense tubes have been sunken under the waterways to build new crossings or expand old ones, giving this part of Virginia one of the world's biggest collections of subterranean crossings and making the once spectacular idea of driving under a river or bay almost common.

But when engineers began plotting their course on the edge of the Atlantic in...

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